An interim pastor recently began serving the Vashon Lutheran Church and will focus his efforts on readying the congregation for a new full-time minister.
The Vashon Library, under construction for more than a year, is nearing completion and is set to reopen by the end of March.
The Vashon Island School District is one of 16 Washington schools recently selected to take part in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) project to improve sexual health education.
Sean Jeffery Jeardoe, 21, was sentenced in King County Superior Court last week to four years in prison and four years in community custody, an alternative program with many requirements, including substance abuse treatment.
After three years of growing food on a plot of land in the southern reaches of Vashon, the food bank will soon move its farm to town.
A King County Sheriff’s Office investigation into alleged racial profiling on the part of two Vashon deputies has found insufficient evidence to prove or disprove a grievance filed by an African American man last spring.
Commuters experienced long waits to get off the island Monday morning after Washington State Ferries (WSF) cancelled several sailings because of lack of qualified crew.
When islander Nancy Slater had difficulty hauling wood needed to heat her home earlier this winter, she called upon a new program that provides free help to Vashon seniors.
The financial condition of the Vashon Park District puts it at risk of not being able to meet its financial obligations or maintain its current services, said state officials, who recently audited the district.
Some of Nepal’s homeless children will soon have a safe place to live if islander Josh Bingham’s plans to build a new home for them comes to fruition.
Vashon’s second credit union is set to open in the former home of Bank of America later this month.
A class covering advance directives — or living wills — will be provided next week to help islanders determine the care and treatment they would like, or would like to avoid, at the end of life.
The man who burglarized the Jensen Point boathouse and a north-end home last fall has pled guilty and is awaiting sentencing.
